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> "would require every bookstore to verify the age of every customer at the door and, for minors..." It's a dumb law, but, devil's advocate - isn't that how po
by knodi123 11mo ago
> "would require every bookstore to verify the age of every customer at the door and, for minors..."
It's a dumb law, but, devil's advocate - isn't that how porn shops work? And porn shops also sell some non-porn items, too.
- killingtime74 11mo agoYes, first amendment is not absolute. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_free_speech_exceptions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_free_speech_exce...
- CrossVR 11mo agoOnly the second one is absolute for some reason.
- fc417fc802 11mo agoFar from it, but I'd rather not drag things so severely off topic. I'll just point out that you used to be able to mail order some surprising (at least by modern sensibilities) stuff.
- tt24 11mo agoInteresting, you think the second amendment is absolute? Can you elaborate on that?
- akerl_ 11mo agoThis is the difference between standing on a street corner shouting "shit" and taking a shit on a street corner. The court is generally pretty adept at navigating the difference between "a bookstore that has some spicy books" and "a sex shop that has some non-spicy books".
- jaco6 11mo agoBookstores that carry porn are porn shops. Apps that carry porn are porn shops, and since the app store has apps that carry porn, the app store is a porn shop.
- lukan 11mo agoNow apply that logic to the whole of the internet.. You might arrive at an old saying, about what the internet is for.
- akerl_ 11mo agoCan you back that up? Basically nowhere else I'm aware of do we draw that kind of expansive categorization. A gas station isn't a book store if they have one rack of books next to all the snacks. A book store isn't an electronics shop if they have a rack of e-readers.
- gs17 11mo agoAirport newsstands used to sell adult magazines, do I buy a bottle of water from a porn shop every trip?
- knodi123 11mo agoI guess that makes sense. Thanks.
- hiddencost 11mo agoICYMI Kavanaugh endorsed arresting people because they look brown so I'm not sure why we're putting any faith in the court system.
- Nasrudith 11mo agoLaws which are open to abuse are bad laws. Full stop.
- akerl_ 11mo agoThe world is very complex. It's effectively impossible to write laws on most topics that perfectly capture all nuance. Which is why we have a judicial system that can look at a law and a situation and say "nope, this law (or this usage of a law) is incorrect". Which is what's happened here, where the court issued an injunction on enforcement of the Texas law.
- immibis 11mo agoMost modern social media is the latter, but for trash and propaganda, rather than sex. So why doesn't the court apply the same rule that it's okay to check IDs on entry?
- akerl_ 11mo agoProbably because there are reasonable principles to draw on about withholding access to explicit sexual content from children, but there are no similar principles about trash or propaganda. Trash and propaganda are both pretty clearly within the remit of permitted free speech.
- immibis 11mo agoSo was porn, until the court just decided it hated the constitution...